New Websterian 1912 Dictionary: Based Upon the Unabridged Dictionary of Noah Webster : with a Reference Library and Treasury of FactsSyndicate Publishing Company, 1912 - 1160 pages |
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acid action ancient animal ärm āte bird body bōōn characterized Church cloth color comp containing dictionary disease doctrine dress English especially fasten fish flowers formerly fruit furnish genus Greek prefix meaning head Hindu horse ical Indian instru instrument interj Italian kind land language larvæ Latin letter light liquid manner mark measure medicine ment merge metal mite moral musical n.pl nature ness nôrth nōte Old French one's organ ornament p.adj p.pr person pertaining piece plant produced pron rank resembling Roman Roman Catholic Church shaped ship side sion skilled skin soft sound Spanish stone substance superl syllables taining thing tion tree usually v.i. to become v.t. to cause v.t. to cover v.t. to give v.t. to place v.t. to put verb vessel wood words worn
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Page xxiv - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 10 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page xvii - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country}.
Page xli - Primitive words ending in y, preceded by a consonant, change the y into i before any termination but 's, or one commencing with i ; as, merry, merrier ; pity, pitiless.
Page xxxviii - To th' instruments divine respondence meet; The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 172 - ... of division, so as to produce new phloem and xylem. Capitate (relating to head). (1) Rounded, as the head of the stigma of the primrose ; or (2) growing in heads. Capsule (a small box). A dry, dehiscent seed vessel (formed of more than one carpel). Carpel (fruit). The megasporophyll ; hence either a simple pistil or one of the parts of a compound pistil. Carpellary. Relating to a carpel. Catkins. See Ament. Caulicle (a small stem). The initial stem in an embryo. Cell. The morphological or anatomical...
Page 193 - A circle is a plane bounded by a single curved line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre.
Page xlii - He said therefore again unto them, "I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come.
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Page 6 - But what I have most at Heart is, that some Method should be thought on for ascertaining and fixing our Language for ever, after such Alterations are made in it as shall be thought requisite.